Following Ghulam Nabi Azad’s decision to quit congress, at least six former MLAs, some of them ministers in erstwhile State government, have resigned from the Cong. While five of them tendered a joint resignation, other—R S Chib submitted it separately but all of them have done it in support of Azad, the ex-Health minister of India, former leader of Opposition in Parliament and ex-Chief Minister of J&K. GM Saroori, Choudhary Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad and Abdur Rashid Dar
